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Annual Meeting Participants (Campus Forum Participants-->)

Sergio Aguayo Quezada
Professor of International Studies, El Colegio de México
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008; Visiting Scholar at CLAS in 2003-04 and Fall 2007

Gustavo Alanís Ortega
President, Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

José Alberto Aguilar
Federal Deputy, Southern Baja California (PRI)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2005, 2003

Carmen Aristegui
Journalist and Anchorperson, CNN
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003

David Bonior
Professor, Wayne State University; Member of Congress, 1976-2002
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Sherrod Brown
Member of Congress, Ohio (D) / Senator, Ohio
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2005, 2003, 2002

Christopher Cannon
Member of Congress, Utah (R)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Felipe de Jesús Cantú Rodríguez
Mayor, Monterrey, Mexico (PAN)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Head of Government, Mexico City, 1997-99
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006 and Visiting Scholar at CLAS in Spring 2006.

Lorenzo Cárdenas Batel
Governor, Michoacán (PRD)
Activity: Annual Meeting 2005

Gilbert Cedillo
State Senator, California
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Lydia Chávez
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Enrique de la Madrid
Member of Congress, Mexico City (PRI)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Martha Delgado
Minister of the Environment, Mexico City
Activity: Annual Meeting 2008

Maria Elena Durazo
Vice President, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002 

Maria Echaveste
Attorney and Consultant, CEO Nueva Vista Group
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Christopher Edley
Dean, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008

Rafael Fernández de Castro
Chairman, Department of International Studies, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Co-Convenor

Bob Filner
Member of Congress, California (D)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2005, 2003

Kevin Gallagher
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Pete Gallego
State Assembly, Texas
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Amalia García Medina
Governor, Zacatecas
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005

Juan José García Ochoa
Federal Deputy, Federal District (PRD)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2005  

Rolando García Alonso
Director of International Affairs, (PAN)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Adriana González Carrillo
Senator, State of Mexico
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003

Miriam Grunstein
Attorney, Thompson & Knight (Mexico City)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008

Carlos Heredia
Senior Advisor to the Governor, Michoacán, Mexico
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002

Rosalinda López Hernández
Member of Congress, Tobasco (PRD)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Silvia Hernández
Senator, Querétarov (PRI)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Tamar Jacoby
President, ImmigrationWorks USA
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008; 2006

Dan Kammen
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008

Mary Kelly
Senior Attorney and Program Director for U.S./Mexico Border Initiatives, Environmental Defense
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2005, 2003, 2002

Chappel Lawson
Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002 

Patricia Llaca
Actress
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2005, 2003 

Carlos Loret de Mola
Journalist, Televisa
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002 

Beatriz Manz
Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2002

Eliseo Medina
Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Manuel Ángel Núñez
Governor, State of Hidalgo (PRI)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Karen Nussbaum
Executive Directory, Working America, AFL-CIO
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008

Ricardo Obert
Chief Executive Officer, Productos Quimicos Mardupol
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2005, 2003

Clyde Prestowitz
President,Economic Strategy Institute, Washington, D.C.
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006

Ciro Rodriguez
Member of Congress, Texas (D.)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002  

Cecilia Romero Castillo
Director, National Migration Institute
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003

Pablo Salazar
Governor, State of Chiapas
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Linda Sánchez
Member of Congress, California
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006

Loretta Sanchez
Member of Congress, California
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008; 2006, 2005, 2003

Alex Saragoza
Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002 

Harley Shaiken
(convener)
Chair, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen M. Silberstein
Co-founder and first President, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Hilda Solis
Member of Congress, California (D.)
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2002

Miguel Székely Pardo
Undersecretary for Budget, Planning and Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006, 2002

Kathleen K. Townsend
Lieutenant Governor, 1995–2003, Maryland
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008

Lynn Woolsey
Member of Congress, California
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2006

Frank Zimring
Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Activity: Annual Meetings: 2008


Campus Forum Participants

Mariclaire Acosta
Former subsecretary for Human Rights and Democracy in the Secretariat of Foreign Relations Office in Mexico.
Event: "A Human Rights Policy for a Democratic Mexico," March 18, 2004.

Sergio Aguayo
Sergio Aguayo is Professor of International Studies at El Colegio de México and a weekly columnist for Reforma.
Events: "The U.S. and Mexico: Neighbors in a New Era (Panel Discussion)," April 12, 2002; "Mexico at the Crossroads: An Evaluation of the Fox Administration," April 18, 2002; "Mexico’s 2006 Presidential Election: The Factors and Actors Involved," April 13, 2004.

José Alberro
Former CEO of Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica
Event: "Panel Discussion: The Politics of Petroleum and the Future of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship," September 12, 2002.

Irene Bloemraad
Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley.
Event: “Learning the Political Ropes: Civic and Political Learning in Mixed Status Mexican Origin Families,” March 19, 2007

David Bonior
Member of Congress, 1976-2002, Professor in the College of Urban, Labor & Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University.
Events: "NAPU and You: The North American Parliamentary Union - What It Is and Why We Need It," April 3, 2003.

Garrett Brown
Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network.
Event: “Striking Copper Miners in Cananea, Mexico — Fighting for Their Lives,”
March 3, 2008

Manuel Camacho Solís
Former mayor of Mexico City and adviser to Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Event: "Where is Mexico Headed?" October 18, 2006

Roderic Camp
Professor of Government at the Claremont McKenna College
Event: “Panel Discussion: Democracy: Perceptions in Mexico and the U.S.,” October 28, 2002.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Co-founder of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática ( PRD ), mayor of Mexico City from 1997–99, and a three-time presidential candidate.
Events: "The Future of U.S.–Mexico Relations" March 2, 2006.

Marina Castañeda
Psychologist
Event: "EL MACHISMO INVISIBLE: Machismo in Contemporary Mexico," September 19, 2002.

Alfredo Corchado
Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News.
Event: “How to Report in Mexico Without Being Jailed, Kidnapped or Killed” February 28, 2008.

José Ramón Cossío Díaz
Mexican Supreme Court Justice
Event: “Constitutional Actions in Mexico” February 25, 2005.

Jeffrey Davidow
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Event: “Possibilities and Challenges for the U.S. and Mexico,” October 14, 2002

Alain de Janvry
Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
Event: “Can Mexico’s Social Programs Reduce Poverty?” January 31, 2005.

J. Bradford DeLong
Professor of Economics and Chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California at Berkeley.
Event: "Afta Thoughts On Nafta," October 16, 2006. 

Denise Dresser
Professor in the Department of Political Science at ITAM in Mexico City .
Event: "Blood Sport: The Politics of Mexico's Presidential Elections,” April 26, 2000; "The U.S. and Mexico: Neighbors in a New Era (Panel Discussion)," April 12, 2002.

Enrique Dussel Peters
Professor of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Event: "Economic Challenges of the New Fox Administration in Mexico" April 12, 2001;
"The Fox Administration Three Years Later," November 6, 2003.

Maria Echaveste
Lecturer in Residence at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law; Co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group, a consulting firm; Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton White House from 1998–2001.
Event: “Panel Discussion: Latinos and the Political Process,” April 24, 2003;

Michael J. Economides
Professor of engineering at the University of Houston
Event: "Panel Discussion: The Politics of Petroleum and the Future of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship," September 12, 2002.

Gustavo Esteva
Activist
Event: "Democratic Transition and Grassroots Initiatives in Mexico,” October 5, 2000

Dolia Estevez
Journalist, El Financiero
Event: “Discussion Forum: Perspectives on the United States and Mexico: A Journalists' Forum," September 26, 2002

Rafael Fernández de Castro
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Event: "Panel Discussion: The U.S. and Mexico: Problems and Prospects," February 12, 2003.

Albert Fishlow
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Event: "Mexican Development in the Long Term: Is NAFTA Sufficient?" March 13, 2003

Jonathan Fox
Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Event: "Accountability, Participation and Decentralization: Lessons from World Bank-funded Rural Development Projects in Mexico,” August 31, 2000; “Rethinking Local Governance: Lessons From a Collaborative Research Project With the Oaxaca Indigenous Binational Front,” May 5, 2003.

Kevin Gallagher
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations at Boston University and Research Associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), Tufts University.
Event: “Guadalajara: The Silicon Valley of Mexico?” March 8, 2005.

Amalia García Medina
Governor of the state of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Event: "Reflections on Mexico's Transition," October 18, 2000; "The U.S. and Mexico: A View from Zacatecas" April 4, 2005.

Enrique de la Garza
Professor of Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa)
Event: "Mexican Labor at a Crossroads,” September 29, 2000; "New Directions for Union Organizing in Mexico,” September 28, 2001.

Adolfo Gilly
Professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM)
Event: "The Long Strike at the UNAM: Higher Education and the Restructuring of the Mexican State", March 22, 2000; "Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico (A panel discussion),” October 4, 2001.

Sylvia Guendelman
Professor and Chair of the Maternal and Child Health Program in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley.
Event: “The Health Consequences of Maquiladora Work: Female Workers on the U.S.–Mexico Border,” November 10, 2003.

Lucas Guttentag, National Director of the ACLU National Immigrants’ Rights Project; Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Event: “Panel event: Perspectives on Immigration” October 21, 2004.

Jeffrey Hermanson
Union organizer with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and its successor UNITE
Event: "Challenges for the Contemporary Mexican Labor Movement," April 8, 2008

Marcela Hernández Romo
Professor, UAM
Event: "Productive Restructuring and Business Culture in Mexico," April 17, 2002.

Stephen Herzenberg
Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center
Event: "The NAFTA Labor Agreement," September 27, 2002.

Andrès Jimènez
Director of the California Program on Opportunity and Equity (CalPOE)
Event: "Democracy Beyond National Borders?: The Mexican Immigrant Right to Vote Movement,” October 25, 2000.
 

Huberto Juárez Núñez
Professor of Economics at the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico .
Events: "Mexican Auto Unions, Trade, and Labor Standards: A New Perspective in the Debate on Labor Standards and Trade," December 1, 2000; "Labor Regulations and Development of the Modular Production of the Auto Industry in Mexico : The Cases of VW and GM”; "Impacts of the Maquiladora Clothing Industry in Mexican Regions, 1994-2001," November 22, 2002; "Economía y Trabajo en México a una década del NAFTA," March 29, 2004.

Alan Knight
Professor, Oxford University
Event: "Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico (Panel discussion),” October 4, 2000.

Georgina Lagos
Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco (2001-04)
Event: "Mexico & California: New Challenges for Consular Affairs," April 20, 2004.

Chappell Lawson
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Event: “Is There Public Opinion in Mexico?” March 17, 2003.

Victor Lichtinger
International environmental consultant
Event: "Toward an Effective Environmental Policy for Mexico,” October 2, 2000.

Claudine LoMonaco
Reporter
Event: Video Premiere: “Matías”, October 20, 2004.

Philip Martin
UC Davis professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the chair of the UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program.
Event: "Mexico-US Migration Ten Years After NAFTA,” November 4, 2002; “Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Immigration” October 21, 2004; "International Migration: Global, American and Agricultural Issues," April 2, 2008.

Jesús Martínez
Author
Event: "Democracy Beyond National Borders?: The Mexican Immigrant Right to Vote Movement,” October 25, 2000.

Lorenzo Meyer
Professor, International Studies Department, Colegio de México
Event: "The End of Mexico's Transition?" April 12, 2000; "The Consolidation of Mexico's New Regime: The Beginning,” March 5, 2003.

Alejandro Moreno
Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, ITAM
Event: “Panel Discussion: Democracy: Perceptions in Mexico and the U.S.,” October 28, 2002.

Santiago Oñate
Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom
Event: "Mexico in 2000: A Leap Ahead or a New Crisis?" March 14, 2000.

Robert Pastor
Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at American University
Event: “North America: Vision or Illusion?” May 1, 2003.

Sam Quinones
Writer and journalist based in Mexico City
Event: "Telethons, Talk Shows, and Dead Dinosaurs: The Unnoticed Moments of Mexico's Transition to Democracy," October 31, 2001.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente
Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM)
Event: "Education, Competitiveness and Reforms in Mexico" April 7, 2005.

Andrés Rozental
Former Ambassador at Large and Special Presidential Envoy for President Vicente Fox
Event: "U.S.-Mexico Relations: A Post-September 11 Scenario," November 27, 2001.

John Ross
Bay Area social activist and long-time resident of Mexico City.
Event: "Putting the Zapatistas into History: Indian Rebellion in the Foxian Future," November 29, 2000.

Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Governor of the State of Chiapas, 2000-2006.
Event: "Chiapas and the Future of Mexico,” October 26, 2000.

James Samstad
Professor of political science, San Diego State University
Event: "Democratization and Corporatism in Mexico: The Zedillo Administration, 1994-2000,” August 11, 2000.

Ricardo Sandoval
Assistant City Editor at the Sacramento Bee
Event: “How to Report in Mexico Without Being Jailed, Kidnapped or Killed” February 28, 2008.

Harley Shaiken
Professor of Geography and Education and Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
Event: "Panel Discussion: The U.S. and Mexico: Problems and Prospects," February 12, 2003.

Mary Beth Sheridan
Journalist,
The Washington Post
Event: “Discussion Forum: Perspectives on the United States and Mexico: A Journalists' Forum," September 26, 2002.

David Shields
Journalist and private consultant on energy matters in Mexico .
Event: “The Mexican Oil Industry: Problems and Policy Options” February 9, 2006.

Mary Spicuzza
Reporter
Event: Video Premiere: “Matías”, October 20, 2004.

Ginger Thompson
Journalist, The New York Times
Event: “Discussion Forum: Perspectives on the United States and Mexico: A Journalists' Forum," September 26, 2002.

Sandy Tolan
Journalist
Event: "Environmental Issues along the US-Mexican Border,” November 6, 2000; "Panel Discussion: The Politics of Petroleum and the Future of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship," September 12, 2002.

Carmen Valadez
Co-founder of Casa de la Mujer/Grupo Factor X
Event: "CITTAC: Organizing and Advocating for Workers' Rights Under Mexican Law," September 24, 2002.

Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera
Professor of Urban Planning at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Event: "Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City,” April 7, 2008.

Blanca Velasquez Diaz
Representative and co-founder of CAT, the Support Center for Workers located in Atlixco, Puebla in central Mexico.
Event: “The Economic Consequences of NAFTA: A Labor Organizer’s Point of View,” October 16, 2002.

Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles, California (D)
Event: "The U.S. and Mexico: Neighbors in a New Era (Panel Discussion)," April 12, 2002.

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon
President of Mexico from December 1994 to December 2000 and currently Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor of International Economics and Politics at Yale University.
Event: "Fostering or Frustrating Globalization, That Is the Question," February 13, 2004.

 

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